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The CBC wants to hear from anglophone Quebecers about its programming. Tuesday evening, the public broadcaster is inviting them to a panel discussion with CBC management to ask questions and offer ideas in response to the question: “How can CBC best use mobile, web, TV and radio to tell stories, exchange and engage with Quebec’s […]

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The government is not wrong in wanting to rein in exploding costs, reorganize the health system and eliminate the formidable bureaucracy that encumbers services. But the way they are going about it — without ample consultation and with little regard for constructive criticism — threatens to compromise their objectives in the long run.

Education Minister Yves Bolduc says it’s still too early to flunk Quebec’s high school reform, about a dozen years since its introduction. “Often, at the beginning of a reform, changes are made that make results worse. Down the road, we think they will improve,” he said after a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “The longer it goes on […]

With an unemployment rate of 13.8 per cent, higher then the general population, and a lack of positive role models, Quebec's black anglophone community — a minority within a minority — is struggling to fit in to Quebec society.

The number of people in Quebec whose mother tongue is French rose by 273,735. The number speaking French at home (around the family table!) actually rose even more, by 336,890. French is assimilating others, not being assimilated.

The public counts on schools and the order to produce qualified, competent nurses through a fair but strenuous testing method. Until two years ago, they'd done just that. This year, 400 students complained to the order that the English version of the September 2014 test was poorly translated.

The probe by the Quebec Order of Nurses has raised more questions than it has answered. For instance, the order says translation wasn't really that bad. Nevertheless, it will hire a second translation company to review the final version for proper grammar for next year's test.

Robert Williams writes: "Something similar to the government of Ontario's office of francophone affairs is what we need here, crucial now that our health care system is undergoing major changes with no guarantee the continuation of English services."

The significance and attachment of local English speakers to the ETSB cannot be underestimated. The ETSB is the only administrative structure that covers the entire former Eastern Townships (save Thetford Mines), is governed by local English-speakers and provides exclusively English-language government services in the region.

At a press conference, Bellucci said the reason she’s here shooting Ville-Marie is simple. She was blown away by Édoin’s screenplay and loved the role he was proposing for her. She was even more sold on coming here to work with Édoin after she watched Marécages.